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The comedy of errors. By Mr. William Shakespear

by: Shakespeare, William ; Chetwood, William R. (William Rufus)

Publication date: 1734

Publisher: London : Printed for J[acob] Tonson, and the rest of the Proprietors; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster

Collection: bibliotheca_fictiva; Johns_Hopkins_University; americana

Contributor: The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Language: English

Item Size: 188.2M

12mo. f. [1] (blank), pp. 60 (pp. 7-8 called 17-18), f. [1] (plates). Hard blue paper boards. Repairs on first few pages and last page. Apparent acidity on endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Head- and tailpieces. Manuscript note on title page: "No: 10: K: Richmond, Brougham."

First separate edition of the play; with a printed notice (full-page version) by William Rufus Chetwood certifying that he has not provided any prompt copies to Robert Walker for his ‘useless, pirated and maimed editions’ of Shakespeare. See H. L. Ford, Shakespeare, 1700-1740; a collation of the editions and separate plays, with some account of T. Johnson and R. Walker. New York, [1968], p. 30; ESTC, T000098.

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